Apple's 9 Biggest Flops

Think that Apple, with its new tablet, can do no wrong? A look back at some of the company’s misfires may change your mind. WATCH VIDEOS of hilarious commercials for Apple’s biggest flops.

Apple Lisa

Ever wonder what Apple was like before the Macintosh? Watch this '80s-tastic promo video for the Apple Lisa and you’ll get a sense. While the Lisa was the first computer with a mouse and graphical user interface, its $9,000 price tag (that’s around $20,000 in 2010 money) didn’t exactly translate to success. Please note: The faux-Tangerine Dream soundtrack was not included with the computer.

Apple Cube

Steve Jobs, in this video announcing the G4 Cube, calls the 8” x 8” computer “quite possibly the most beautiful product [Apple had] ever designed.” Fat lot of good that did: The overpriced, under-powered machine was discontinued the very next year after lackluster sales, despite winning several design awards.

Apple Pippin

Nowadays, the thought of all-powerful, do-no-wrong Apple Computer entering the videogame market would likely have Nintendo and Sony shaking in their boots. But not so much in 1996, when a then-foundering Apple introduced the “multimedia” hardware platform, the Pippin. The lackluster promo video accompanying the product was just the beginning—the actual machine had almost no software, and was quickly lost amid a saturated videogame platform market.